单词：expense
[经] 费用, 开支, 将支出转为费用
n. a detriment or sacrifice
n. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
v. reduce the estimated value of something
考试类型：[高考/四级/考研]
expense的用法和样例：
例句
- It's too much of an expense for me to own a car.对我来说，拥有一辆汽车的花费太大。
- Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being.社会应尽力挽救每一动植物物种,不管花费多少人力、时间和财力。
- Don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense.勿做不必要的花费。
- He finished the job at the expenses of his health.他以牺牲健康完成了这项工作。
- That's why a reduction in price can never be made at the expense of quality.正因为如此,降低价格的同时,并不能以牺牲质量为代价。
常见句型
- I can't afford the expense of redecorating my house.我负担不起重新装修房子的费用。
- It's too much of an expense to own a car.拥有一辆汽车的花费太大。
- House repairs, holidays and other expenses reduced his bank balance to almost nothing.修房、度假和其他开销使他在银行的存款所剩无几。
常用短语
- 捉弄某人against sb, so as to make them seem silly
- 在损失〔损坏〕某事物的情况下with loss or damage to sth
- 在某事上花钱spend money on sth
- 使某人花钱于某事上cause sb to spend money on sth
- 不惜费用with no regard for the cost
词汇搭配
- afford〔assume, stand〕 the expense承担费用
- avoid expense避免花费
- bear〔take on〕 all the expense承担全部费用
- clear the expenses支付开销
- cut down〔reduce〕 expenses削减开支
- figure out expense算出费用
- increase〔keep down〕 expenses增加〔削减〕开支
- advertising expenses广告费
- additional expense附加费用
- constant〔variable〕 expenses固定〔变动〕费用
- extra expense额外开支
- housing〔living〕 expenses住房〔生活〕费用
- necessary expenses必要的开支
- working expenses经营费,工作费用
- business〔development, funeral〕 expenses营业〔发展,丧葬〕费用
- entertainment expenses招待费,娱乐费
- holiday〔office, school〕 expenses度假〔办公,学〕费
- at sb's expense由某人付费
- free of expense免费
- regardless of expense不惜费用
- with great〔little〕 expense花费大〔小〕
- the expense for〔in〕用于…的费用
经典引文
This exuberance of money displayed itself in wantonness of expence.
出自：S. JohnsonThe protein issue..was now insufficient for full normal expense of energy.
出自：U. Le Guin
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